Mark Wiebe

Career victories: Two - 1985 Anheuser-Busch, 1986 Hardees Classic. Career earnings: $1,189,021. 1989 earnings: $209,873. Age: 31. Highlights: Wiebe has not won in almost three years, but has recovered nicely from a 1987 slump. He missed only four cuts in 32 events last year and had seven top-10 finishes, the best of which was at the Busch, where he lost to Tom Sieckmann on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff. The best of Wiebe's three top-10 efforts this season is a second-place tie at San Diego.

John Mahaffey (1981): Remains semi-competitive on the Senior Tour, where this year he finished seventh at the U.S. Senior Open. Won 10 times on the PGA Tour. His lone Senior Tour victory came in 1999 at the Southwestern Bell Dominion. Calvin Peete (1982 and '83): Among the most accurate drivers in PGA Tour history. Won 12 Tour events, including a prestigious Players Championship in 1985. Now relegated to part-time status on the Senior Tour, where he is winless in eight years.

Worst start: Labron Harris who bogeyed five of the first seven holes, including a double-bogey seven on the par-5 seventh hole. Worst hole: The 7 recorded by Jack Hall on the par-4 18th. Hall had an 81 for the day. Worst turnaround: Robert Thompson shot a one-under 34 on the back nine to start, then skied to a 42 on the front nine for a 76. Worst shot: Britton again. A flubbed chip shot from the bunker on his third shot on the fourth hole, immediately following his double eagle, resulted in a double bogey six. Worst performance on the front nine: Reese, who shot a 43 to start.

Grant Waite trails leader Duffy Waldorf by three, and the deficit can be traced to the par-4 12th hole. Waite bogeyed the hole Thursday and Friday and then made double Saturday. Williamsburg native Mark Carnevale was 2-under for his round as he approached the 16th. He then made double-bogey 6 followed by quadruple-bogey 7 at the 17th on his way to a 76. Jeff Sluman wasn't impressed with his 68, which equaled the day's best. "I just didn't feel comfortable over the ball, so I'm going to the range to work out some of the kinks."

For one agonizing hole here Friday morning Keith Decker stood in for everyone who's ever butchered a sleeve of Titleists. Witness his embarrassing 5-over-par 10 on the 516-yard seventh hole during the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic at Kingsmill. Said Decker, a good-natured, bespectacled amateur from Martinsville: "I thought it would never end." Decker, the lone amateur in the 150-player field, had birdied the same hole Thursday. He was 1-under through the first six holes Friday, with a good chance to make the cut. Then came No. 7. "I didn't want to hit the ball right, so I duck-hooked it left, out of bounds," Decker said matter of factly.

On the fourth consecutive day of temperatures hovering around 100 degrees at the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, Mark Wiebe decided to challenge the PGA's dress code rule, which prohibits its professionals from wearing shorts at PGA Tour events. Wiebe, who won this tournament in 1985, walked out to the driving range Sunday morning wearing knee-high black shorts. He took driving practice for "about 15 to 20 minutes" before PGA Tournament Director Duke Butler asked him what he was doing.

Grant Waite trails leader Duffy Waldorf by three, and the deficit can be traced to the par-4 12th hole. Waite bogeyed the hole Thursday and Friday and then made double Saturday. Williamsburg native Mark Carnevale was 2-under for his round as he approached the 16th. He then made double-bogey 6 followed by quadruple-bogey 7 at the 17th on his way to a 76. Jeff Sluman wasn't impressed with his 68, which equaled the day's best. "I just didn't feel comfortable over the ball, so I'm going to the range to work out some of the kinks."

John Daly, known for his "grip-it-and-rip-it game," has been added to the list of marquee players who likely will be playing in the Michelob Championship Oct. 9-12 at the Kingsmill Golf Club. Daly, who remains a big crowd favorite despite his history of marital and alcohol problems, hasn't played at Kingsmill since 1991. That's the year he made a name for himself by winning the PGA Championship at the age of 25. Daly played well early at Kingsmill in '91, shooting a 3-under-par 68, but ran into problems the second day. He shot a 74 and missed the cut. "I'm very optimistic John will be part of our field.

If you called your bookie Friday and bet the over on water intake at Kingsmill - set at a bottle every other hole or 108 fluid ounces total - you probably made a little money in this 100-plus degree heat. If you had the foresight to place a chip on Ted Tryba or John Adams forging the lead at the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic after two rounds, you probably made a lot of money. Tryba, a Ben Hogan Tour graduate and ranked 169th on the money list, matched his career-low round with a 6-under-par 65. He leads for the first time as a PGA pro, tied with 16-year winless tour veteran John Adams at 9-under 133. That's one stroke better than Tom Byrum, Blaine McCallister, Jim Gallagher Jr., Jeff Cook and Mark McCumber at 134. Kingsmill touring pro Curtis Strange is among the group at 136, three shots back.

When Ted Tryba was a little boy, growing up in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., his father bought a wood lot and cleared away the trees. The lot, located across the street from the Tryba home, became a field and Ted and his neighborhood pals took it from there. Pick a game and chances are Tryba can tell you a story about the time his buddies and he went for the record. Football, baseball, wrestling, maybe even a foot race or two in the early days. Tryba's favorite was golf. Golf fascinated him. Someday, as he would find out, it also would haunt him. Friday, Tryba shot a 6-under-par 65 in the second round of the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, giving him a tie for the lead and his first appearance in a PGA Tour media interview room.

On the fourth consecutive day of temperatures hovering around 100 degrees at the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, Mark Wiebe decided to challenge the PGA's dress code rule, which prohibits its professionals from wearing shorts at PGA Tour events. Wiebe, who won this tournament in 1985, walked out to the driving range Sunday morning wearing knee-high black shorts. He took driving practice for "about 15 to 20 minutes" before PGA Tournament Director Duke Butler asked him what he was doing.

John Daly, known for his "grip-it-and-rip-it game," has been added to the list of marquee players who likely will be playing in the Michelob Championship Oct. 9-12 at the Kingsmill Golf Club. Daly, who remains a big crowd favorite despite his history of marital and alcohol problems, hasn't played at Kingsmill since 1991. That's the year he made a name for himself by winning the PGA Championship at the age of 25. Daly played well early at Kingsmill in '91, shooting a 3-under-par 68, but ran into problems the second day. He shot a 74 and missed the cut. "I'm very optimistic John will be part of our field.

If you called your bookie Friday and bet the over on water intake at Kingsmill - set at a bottle every other hole or 108 fluid ounces total - you probably made a little money in this 100-plus degree heat. If you had the foresight to place a chip on Ted Tryba or John Adams forging the lead at the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic after two rounds, you probably made a lot of money. Tryba, a Ben Hogan Tour graduate and ranked 169th on the money list, matched his career-low round with a 6-under-par 65. He leads for the first time as a PGA pro, tied with 16-year winless tour veteran John Adams at 9-under 133. That's one stroke better than Tom Byrum, Blaine McCallister, Jim Gallagher Jr., Jeff Cook and Mark McCumber at 134. Kingsmill touring pro Curtis Strange is among the group at 136, three shots back.

When it's time for the Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, an old story comes to mind. It was Christmastime and mom and dad were debating the personality differences of their two small sons. Mom said there wasn't that much difference and dad said there was. "Fred is an optimist," dad said. "He finds the good in everything. Wallace is a pessimist. He sees only the bad." Mom disagreed very much. Dad said he'd prove it and he set out to buy Christmas presents for the boys.

The Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic has been the vehicle by which others before Mike Donald have accelerated their careers. Witness what victory here has done for Mark Wiebe, Mark McCumber and Tom Sieckmann. Wiebe and Sieckmann had never won before on the pro tour. Now they are established competitors. McCumber had won before, but he was slumping so badly he contemplated giving up the tour to devote full time to his golf course construction business. He, too, has been rejuvenated since his A-B victory.